A planned high-speed rail line could put thousands of unique museum exhibits at risk, create electro-magnetic interference disrupting Birmingham trams and help thieves pull off a daring robbery, according to complaints submitted to the House of Commons.

These are some of the claims made in 1,925 official petitions opposing the proposed line from London to Birmingham, known as HS2.

One of the most scathing comments came from Birmingham Airport which warns the opportunity to create an exciting new railway station at the airport and the National Exhibition Centre had been squandered after plans for a “standard” park and ride station were drawn up instead.

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Have you received a Sectary of State challenge on you right to petition on the grounds of standing. What is the Government wishing to establish when more people will be paying taxes for a project of no personal value. When the Government does not want to accept wider blight and much wider traffic congestion for a marginal rail gain but road loss.

Many petitions are from people who are losing and will lose personally

There are many people with petitions that impact them. How much housing and business capital and income is now lost by the thousands of which the 2000 petitions are only a fraction of people impacted. The UK Government is not willing to correct the route for environment or other damages. It was never optimised to use brown land and avoid some of the open countryside and homes. This intransigence is one reason people are voting against the three parties and will likely do so to May as the intolerance of several MPs and people in the Civil Service and HS2 have gone into a head to head with the 160Km of the Route 3.

Joe’s son hasn’t got everything spot on. Govt does think people wish to work(?) even while waiting at the station! “A new deal for rail services on the West Coast Main Line that will bring thousands more seats, FREE Wi-Fi and pave the way for new journeys on the route has been awarded to West Coast Trains Limited (Virgin), Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced today (19 June 2014)”.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/better-journeys-for-passengers-on-the-west-coast-main-line And guess what, he slips in that they’ll add 5500 more (useful) seats per day by converting 21 first class coaches to standard to add to the existing 30 million passengers per year currently carried on the WC. Doesn’t sound so much of an increase until you multiply by 365. This action on seating is, of course, exactly what hundreds of observers have been crying out for these past 3 years. I would suggest some caution on wi-fi. I am aware of a big accounting firm whose execs are not allowed even to turn on a computer when travelling. I wonder what they know that we do not?